Seeing and imagining use similar brain machinery. New research reveals the brain circuit that identifies what is real, which ...

How does your brain know something is real? Your brain blends imagination and reality—sometimes too well. Keith Wagstaff Published Jul 11, 2025 9:00 AM EDT ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

Unlike most animals, whose brains remain smooth, species like humans, dolphins, and pigs exhibit a wrinkled cortex. These ...

A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner speech, which could help people with paralysis communicate.

AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence We already have an example of general intelligence, and it doesn't look like AI.

If artificial intelligence ever operates more like the human brain, it will be far more energy efficient. AI can more closely mimic human brain function through a concept called active inference.

Words like “training,” “fine-tuning” and “optimization” are frequently used to describe human behavior. But we don’t train, fine-tune or optimize in the way that AI does.

UB researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture that can support the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence.  ...